2019 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking began to publish world university ranking by academic subjects in 2009. By introducing improved methodology, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) was first published in 2017. The 2024 GRAS contains rankings of universities in 55 subjects across Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. More than 1,900 out of 5,000 universities across 96 countries and regions are finally listed in the rankings. The GRAS rankings use a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure the performance of world universities in respective subjects, covering in 5 major evaluation categories such as World-Class Faculty, World-Class Output, High Quality Research, Research Impact and International Collaboration. The index of international academic awards is based on Academic Excellence Survey (AES) conducted by ShanghaiRanking.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	358.7	64.9
2	University of Washington University of Washington	325.5	56.2
3	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	323.9	54.6
4	King's College London King's College London	314.1	62.4
5	Harvard University Harvard University	296.5	71.0
6	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	294.5	45.1
7	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	283.7	41.0
8	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	282.8	47.2
9	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	272.6	100.0
10	University of Florida University of Florida	262.1	47.7
11	KU Leuven KU Leuven	260.2	43.3
12	University of Southern California University of Southern California	259.1	39.8
13	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	258.3	34.3
14	University College London University College London	256.5	52.8
15	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	249.9	44.2
16	Osaka University Osaka University	249.7	41.6
17	New York University New York University	249.6	59.8
18	Tokyo Medical and Dental University Tokyo Medical and Dental University	246.9	59.0
19	University of Bern University of Bern	245.0	66.7
20	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	241.1	35.8
21	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	240.8	41.1
22	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	239.9	45.9
23	University of Turku University of Turku	239.8	39.0
24	University of Birmingham University of Birmingham	238.3	37.7
25	University of Zurich University of Zurich	238.0	65.5
26	University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg	237.5	56.6
27	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	237.3	39.2
28	University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Alabama at Birmingham	235.7	37.7
29	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	235.2	43.0
30	University of Toronto University of Toronto	234.5	46.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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